Homework Help: math

Posted by Annie on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:45pm.

A simple fractal tree Grows in stages. A each new stage, two new line segments branch out from each segment at the top of the tree. The first five stages are shown. How many line segments need to be drawn to create stage 20?

Stage 1- 1
Stage 2 - 3
Stage 3 - 7
Stage 4 -15
Stage 5 - 31 branches

math - Steve, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:03pm
Does the sequence look anything like powers of 2?

2 4 8 16 32 ...

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